Zou Jingzhi is a fiction writer, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. He is a founding member of the Chinese theatre collective Longmashe. ‘The Excitements of Spring’ is an excerpt from a novel-in- progress.
‘As a young man, I wanted to learn how to love, but in the end, I did nothing. I wanted to torture myself, but didn’t know where to begin.’Fiction by Zou Jingzhi, translated by Jeremy Tiang.